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     Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.55 |
1 What was the name of Baron Greenback’s pet caterpillar? 2 Which actor was the reigning Doctor Who for the longest time? 3 By what name is the cartoon character Melvin Van Horne better known? 4 Who lives at 29 Spooner Street? 5 What was Nursie’s real name in Blackadder 2? 6 Which actor links Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea and the first episode of Knight Rider? 7 After the Young Ones finished, what was the next comedy show to star Edmonson and Mayall? 8 How many people have appeared in every episode of Mock the Week? Bonus, name them 9 Name 4 Happy Days spin off series. 10 Finish with another Dangermouse question – in which London street is the letter box home of Dangermouse and Penfold? | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.228.230 |
#9 - "Joanie Loves Chachie" (sp?), "Laverne & Shriley," uh... wasn't there a series with Lenny & Squiggy?... and that leaves... um... | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 129.11.77.198 |
5. Bernard 7. Filthy, Rich and Catfalp | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.106.220.19 |
1. Nero 2. Tom Baker (inspired guess!) 3. Sideshow Mel 4. Dunno 5. Dunno 6. Dunno 7. Filthy, Rich & Catflap - a favourite until Bottom arrived! 8. Dunno 9. Only recall "Laverne and Shirley" 10. Baker Street | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.55 |
Craig - 2 correct on the spinoffs Gary - correct on both counts Mick -1 correct, 2 wrong, 3 correct, 7 correct, 10 correct, 9 1 out of 4 there were 5 live action spinoffs and a couple of animated shows. | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
Being honest... (spot the wild guesses) 1. Nero (I'm a Dangermouse nut) 2. Tom Baker 3. Bananaman 4. Paddington Bear 5. Gladys Baumstein 6. David Hedison (love VTTBOTS) 7. Filthy, Rich & Catflap (brilliant!) 8. Never watched it... Stephen Fry, Paul Merton, Graham Norton & the smug one off Little Britain? 9. Laverne & Shirley, Joanie & Chochie, The Fonz Lives, Happier Nights 10. Shite, I can't remember, um, arrgh, fuck, yes... Baker Street Let me know my score. | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.55 |
stevie - 4 points for questions 1, 7 and part of 9 | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.55 |
Eric Wimp was bananaman you silly boy. he was tall for the average Wimp | ||
| Ian Alexander Martin (Iam) Username: Iam Registered: 10-2009 Posted From: 64.180.64.74 |
The Happy Days question is the only one I can hazard a guess at. * Joanie Loves Chachy * Laverne & Shirley (which featured Lennie & Squiggy) * …there was a show following Pat Morita's "Al" of the diner but I don't recall the title * …and there was an animated thing that followed Arthur Fonzarelli as he travelled the highways of the USA while philosophizing on the importance of maintaining the mechanical parts of his motorcycle with the importance of maintaining the spiritual parts of one's life; as we adjust the carburetor to a differing altitude, we also adjust our expectations and attitudes to a change in situation… or perhaps the last one is a bit of a pastiche? | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.122.209.76 |
Mork & Mindy was a Happy Days spin off Nursie's real name was Bernard (a real-lifehated rival of Richard Curtis' apparently) | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 82.17.252.126 |
I've checked and I think I'm owed at least 4½ points! | ||
| Ian Alexander Martin (Iam) Username: Iam Registered: 10-2009 Posted From: 64.180.64.74 |
Damn! I forgot about M+M! Once again Lord P is superior to me in all ways! …in bed. | ||
| Stu (Stu) Username: Stu Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 86.24.21.38 |
Great. Everyone has already answered the ones I actually knew the answers to. On to wild guesses and answers that will only earn a fraction of a point. 2. Is this a trick question? Is it Paul McGann? There was something like a nine year gap before he was officially replaced. 6. Richard Baseheart. (If that's right I have to split the points with wikipedia.) 9. The cartoon where the Fonz travelled through time with some of the gang from Arnold's and a dog which I think was called Mr Cool. I forget the name of the programme -- The Fonz and the Happy Days Gang maybe? Although I do remember a gag from an Arabian Nights inspired episode; when the Fonz has to enter a treasure cave he uses the magic command "Open says-a-me." | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
Was there not a longer gap between Sylvester McCoy & Paul McGann but surely years when the show wasn't airing can't be counted?! The answer has to be Tom Baker. We need adjudication on this one, Weber. | ||
| Stu (Stu) Username: Stu Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 86.24.21.38 |
I think the McGann/Eccleston gap was longer but I could be wrong. | ||
| Stu (Stu) Username: Stu Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 86.24.21.38 |
8. Dara O'Briain? Hugh Dennis? | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.55 |
Stu is collecting points rapidly here. McGann did have the longest gap untill he was replaced so - despite having the shortest screen time apart from Richard Hurndall - he was the longest "current" or reigning Doctor. Richard Basehart - aka Admiral Nelson and Devon Knight is also correct - as is dara and hugh Dennis for Mock the week. Until Frankie Boyle quit because they cut half his jokes every week (something even Russel Howard is complaining about now), he had also been in every episode. Well done to Lord P for getting Mork and Mindy And to wikipedia for Stu getting the Fonz and the Happy days gang. There are 2 more live action spin off shows that no one has got yet. | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.55 |
Clue - 29 spooner street is in a cartoon, the house has one official occupant although there is a gaggle of asian girls in bikinis chained in his garage who occasionallly break free. | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
Paul McGann - never! It's a fix!! I'm not coming here again.. mutter, grumble, gripe... | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
Quagmire!! | ||
| Stu (Stu) Username: Stu Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 213.81.120.84 |
Jesus, Weber, what cartoons do you watch? Oh, and it was the Richard Basehart question that wikipedia helped me with. I got the Fonz and the Happy Days Gang one all by myself. I have no idea why I'm so proud about that. | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.55 |
Stevie - correct! Quagmire is the Griffin Family's next door neighbour in Family Guy Anyne want to hazard a guess on the last two Happy Days spinoffs? | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
Wasn't there one about the Fonz's nephew or something? Did Pottsy have a spin-off? | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.5.0.198 |
Wasn't there a spin-off to "Happy Days" where Tom Bosley's Mr. Cunningham discovers he has terminal cancer, so he decides to make some money for his family after he's gone, by cooking crystal meth with Potsy, out in the desert?... | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.55 |
The two other spin offs were called Out of the Blue, and Blansky's beauties. I'd never heard of them before looking it up on wikipedia either. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.16.76.46 |
I looked up "Out of the Blue" - it's hardly a spin-off, more like a crossover/set-up - you know, like "Kelly's Kids" from "The Brady Bunch," or the Paul Dooley "Empty Nests" from "The Golden Girls"?... They don't count, in my book; though "Out of the Blue" ran as a series, unlike the other two - but it looks like it was already set up, and this "crossover" was just a way to give it "street cred," instead of test-airing it first like they did in those two latter "series" I've mentioned. Regardless, let's agree on one thing - your erroneous answer, Weber, should be stuffed sideways up your bunghole. | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.55 |
They are listed on Wikipedia as spinoffs. So there | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
Any TV Series that features even one tangential character (or link even) from another earlier show is a spin-off imo. 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' is an interesting example in that it is a "real life" sitcom spin-off of a fictional sitcom, 'Seinfeld', in which the actors are now playing fictionalised versions of themselves who then return to their original fictional alter-egos in Season 7.  |